Notify contributors when orphaning occurs

Posted by Graham Perrin on Mar 20, 2010; 8:37am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Notify-contributors-when-orphaning-occurs-tp4767579.html

Suggestions

When a parent post is deleted:

* notify remaining contributors that their topic is an orphan.

When a post is removed from a topic or forum:

* notify the author of that post, and authors of replies.

Motivation

A timely alert that a topic is misplaced, followed by timely placement in a suitable location, can reduce the likelihood of inappropriate scheduling for deletion.

Considerations

The user may stumble across orphans after taking the menu route to My posts, but it would be nicer to receive notification at the time — not stumble across things, late.

Not all users make regular visits to My posts. (Off-topic: should there be something like a personal dashboard in Nabble?)

Methods of notification

1. Ideally, in the web interface to Nabble: a discreet signal alongside the username. <http://n2.nabble.com/-tp4131246p4759564.html> notes that implementation may require considerable effort (JavaScript, embedding etc.) so I don't imagine this feature in the near future.  

A supersmart implementation would cater for users with multiple identities. (Example: a person with two identities john1 and john2, an item posted by john2 is orphaned, the generic signal/alert — of something somewhere deserving attention — is presented when that person is logged in as john1.)
 
2. E-mail.

Side note

I thought I made the suggestion re: orphaning and notifications long ago, but I can't find the post.